5 ms·
IANAL - is it technically infeasible for Apache to fork the language and call it something else? I think it's getting to the point where if the Java community
by dstein 16y ago
IANAL - is it technically infeasible for Apache to fork the language and call it something else? I think it's getting to the point where if the Java community really wants to continue using this language something drastic must be done.
- wmf 16y agoGoogle tried that and ended up on the wrong end of a patent lawsuit. The Java community is just going to keep using OpenJDK like they do now. As evil as Snoracle is being, it's mostly a theoretical problem given that so few people use Harmony.
- joe_the_user 16y agoAndroid is based on Harmony... http://apache-harmony.blogspot.com/2007/11/google-android-apache-harmony-and-java.html http://apache-harmony.blogspot.com/2007/11/google-android-ap... ... for better or worse.
- ajross 16y agoUh, Android uses Harmony (or a subset thereof). I think that's a rather important detail to understanding what's happening here.
- wmf 16y agoI don't think it has much to do with Android, for two reasons. Google doesn't care whether Harmony gets TCK-certified or not, and the Apache-Sun spat dates from early 2007, before Android was even announced. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Harmony#Difficulties_to_obtain_a_TCK_license_from_Sun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Harmony#Difficulties_to_...
- bartl 16y agoThe article explicitly says that that isn't true (on page 2): "It was thought that Google engineers used some of Project Harmony's code for the project, but the ASF has subsequently debunked this notion."